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Hi List! This post is to confirm that I am stupid. Despite good advice from the list, I bought a used bomb. And the result, you ask? You have guessed. It's worse than my old one. Before change I had to press the pedal really hard to get a "red triangle" light and it would go away after couple of seconds. Now the light comes on couple of seconds after starting the car and it stays on. I checked the servo and it doesn't leak. No doubt, my "new" bomb is dead. !@#$%^&. I wasted $70 and half of Sunday. In the bag I brought the "new" bomb in I found some red fluid with characteristic smell. I think my "new" bomb was broken in the past by some idiot who put ATF in the system. As for now, I disconnected the sensor and am going to drive with this bomb until I buy a _factory_new_ one. (Fortunately, it's the time of the year when Santa visits my company and brings thick envelopes as a gifts :-) ). I'm a little bit worried about the ATF in the "new" bomb, though. Just how much fluid remains in the bomb after it has been removed? I can imagine that some ATF remained in the "new" bomb and now it will mix with the Pentosin in my car. Is the amount of ATF that remained in the bomb enough to do any harm? I'm going to change the Pentosin as a precautionary measure when installing the new bomb. Is it enough, or should I flush the system in some way? Thanks for any answers and I promise to be more wise in the future. Aleksander Mierzwa Warsaw, Poland mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl 87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine) 88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's) 91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)
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